It's also been made into a decent film. The beauty of the novel, and in my opinion what gets lost a bit in the film, is its circularity and ability to draw you into the emotional content through a narrative voice. In many ways, this is like a pop song--the melody gets you hooked into the content of the song. What it allows is for a song, or novel, to blindside you without you realizing it. You're following the voice, the melody and then all of a sudden it hits.
Zambra's second novel, The Private Lives of Trees is, in some ways, a continuation of the first. We're back with a narrative construction, a writer who wrote a book called Bonsai and is in another relationship and reading a book to his step-son entitled The Private Lives of Trees.
If Bonsai 's primary charm was its charm, simplicity and uniqueness, then Zambra, by treading over similar territory, doesn't retread in this novel but digs deeper. The meta conceit makes the book more resonante having known the first. In many ways, this is like a pop song--the melody gets you hooked into the content of the song. What it allows is for a song, or novel, to blindside you without you realizing it. You're following the voice, the melody and then all of a sudden it hits. Zambra's second novel, The Private Lives of Trees is, in some ways, a continuation of the first.
We're back with a narrative construction, a writer who wrote a book called Bonsai and is in another relationship and reading a book to his step-son entitled The Private Lives of Trees.
If Bonsai 's primary charm was its charm, simplicity and uniqueness, then Zambra, by treading over similar territory, doesn't retread in this novel but digs deeper. The meta conceit makes the book more resonante having known the first. And this also allows the album's meaning to accrue. For non-Spanish speakers, all the narrative voice you need is the melody line and then the rest falls into place.
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